Well sort of makes sense Colin.  If you don't shower, you need to talk to 
folks via radio.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Colin McDonald
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:54 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Cost of ham radio was: Hex Beams, cheap?

lol you got it Jim.
What I find kind of funny sometimes is a ham guy will be talking about how
he can't spend this much money on a radio, lets say 1500 or something for a
nice HF rig, and how this hobby is so expensive and his wife won't let him
buy this or that...and then in the next sentence, he's talking about how he
just built a 10,000 dollar deck on  his house, or bought a 20,000 dollar
holiday trailer etc.  Yet the thought of even spending $500 for the hobby
seems too much for some.
Of course, there is the other way too where the guy lives in a run down old
house, hardly showers to save money on water, yet has a 50,000 dollar ham
station lol.


73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Shaffer
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Cost of ham radio was: Hex Beams, cheap?

Honestly, I've always felt that ham radio was not an expensive hobby.
Consider what folks spend on hunting gear, and then hunting trips.  Or look
at skiing with the equipment and then the ski resort!  It costs a bundle to
own, feed and stable a horse.  And there's a good reason why they say the
best two days in a boat owners life are when you buy the boat, and when you
finally sell it.

In ham radio we tend to have a few big outlays, but the day-to-day cost of
the hobby is pretty minimal when you consider the incidental expenses
involved with other passtimes.  My wife, for example, loves animals.  We
have 3 dogs and 4 cats, and it looks like we'll be adopting another cat
soon.  I'm sure that if you add up the money we've spent on animals,
including food and medical care, it's much more than I've spent on ham
radio.
--
Jim, ke5al
-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan R. Downing
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?

If you get a SteppIr, you will love it.  The two SteppIrs that I have owned
have been the best antennas I have had in my 50 plus years of being a ham.
Ham radio is an expensive hobby, all things considered.  If your goal is to
have a high performance world class station, it will definitely cost you.

Alan - N7MIT



Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Chuck Lester
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 9:08 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?

Hey gang,

I'm making plans to own a Stepir.  This will mean playing bingo, five nights

a week, for the next three years.  Multiple cards, each game.  (smiles).
Chuck wa8vmo

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From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:09 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?

> Believe me, $500 to $700 for a yagi is way cheap.  Decent monoband yagis
> these days cost well over $4,000, and many are as much as $10,000.  The
> SteppIr DB36 and DB42 are cheap when you consider that they cover 80 thru
> 6
> meters in a single yagi.  Stan just bought 3 80 meter yagis for his
> Florida
> station that begins construction in July.  Each of them cost him $10,000.
> Each of his 4 20 meter yagis cost him $4700, and they gave him a
> multi-antenna discount.
> Cheap is of course relative, but anything under a grand in the grand
> scheme
> of things is dirt cheap.
>
> Alan - N7MIT
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Shaffer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:53 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
> I'd like one of those Steppir DB36 beams.  They only cost around $5,000.
> Of
>
> course then I'd want a 40 meter tower to put it on.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mike Duke, K5XU
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Hex Beams, cheap?
>
> The ones I have seen range in price from right around $500 to above $700.
>
> In other words, they are priced right up there with the other
> triditional 2 and 3 element tri band yagis.
>
> There hasn't been a cheap Yagi since the Gonthom. Anyone who admits to
> remembering those knows the real meaning of "cheap junk."
>
> -- 
> Mike Duke, K5XU
>
>
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